Private A Horsfall, of the Royal Marines, is in the St
Nicholas Hospital suffering from the effects of septic poisoning
contracted on the West front. He was in the fighting in he Somme
area, and, though things were quiet at the time, they lay for
forty-eight hours in a shell hole. Private Horsfall had
blistered feet at the time, and it is supposed that the cold struck
in this way, and set up blood poisoning. This was just before they
got Grandecourt. He was out at the Front about five months. He is
now making a good recovery.